Ring out freedom! : the voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the making of the civil rights movement

Fredrik Sunnemark shows how materialistic, idealistic, and religious ways of explaining the world coexisted in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speeches and writings. He points out the roles of God, Jesus, the church, and "the beloved community" in King's rhetoric. The book closes with an analysis of King's development after 1965, examining the roots, content, and consequences of his so-called radicalization.--[book cover].

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Martin Luther King, Jr was more than the civil rights movement's most visible figure, he was its voice. This book describes what went into the creation of that voice, and explores how King used words to define a movement. It examines his use of allusions and his strategy of employing different meanings of key ideas to speak to different members.Ler mais...